Kindred Souls

"In a letter to David Gurewitsch, Eleanor Roosevelt's personal physician and friend during the last fifteen years of her life, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, "Above all others, you are the one to whom my heart is tied..." This defines the intense relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch - friends who often traveled and entertained together and eventually, after his marriage to Edna Perkel, bought and shared a town house in Manhattan.". "Their private friendship, a companionship they both treasured, has always intrigued historians, but not much was known about it. David kept diaries…